πagarwalmath · 1st grade · Common Core MP.1
🚀 Challenge puzzles
Make sense of problems and keep at them (puzzles that need thinking, not a known method)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1What comes next? 17, 27, 37, 47, ?
Answer: ______________
2I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 1. Now I have 10. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
3The scale balances. How much does one 🍐 weigh?
Answer: ______________
4What comes next? 18, 20, 22, 24, ?
Answer: ______________
5I think of a number. I add 2, then take away 12. Now I have 2. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
6The scale balances. How much does one 🍎 weigh?
Answer: ______________
7I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 6. Now I have 3. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
8I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 5. Now I have 9. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
9The scale balances. How much does one 🍓 weigh?
Answer: ______________
10I think of a number. I add 3, then take away 4. Now I have 7. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
11I think of a number. I add 6, then take away 7. Now I have 10. What number did I start with?
Answer: ______________
12I am more than 33 and less than 37, and I am odd. What number am I?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 57
- 2. 8
- 3. 5
- 4. 26
- 5. 12
- 6. 2
- 7. 6
- 8. 8
- 9. 4
- 10. 8
- 11. 11
- 12. 35
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